Guardian to form partnership with Vice; on Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and the Nobel Prize; Terry McDonnell on his new memoir; and other news.

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Gabriel García Márquez; a poet examines U.S. government apologies to Native Americans over the past two centuries; and more.

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Fiction writer Tony Tulathimutte, author of the novel Private Citizens, considers why there isn’t a “voice of a generation” novel for Millennials, and why the idea of the generational novel minimizes individual experience. “The desire to universalize…and declare that any book speaks for everyone, ends up shortchanging both the novel and the generation.” (New York Times)

Fiction writer D. Foy discusses his new novel, Patricide, out now from Stalking Horse Press. “I began to consider the uber-matrix in which our fathers are molded. What is the father? How is it he’s become the figure of power and fear he is? What is patriarchy? How does the patriarchy maintain dominance and control, and how and why does its influence pervade every aspect of our society and culture?” (Believer)

Fiction writers Mat Johnson and Samuel Sattin on writing comics and novels; Artists struggle to create in Trump’s America; new literary, feminist, and political magazine seeks funding; and other news.

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Looking for a new book to read? NPR has released its 2016 Book Concierge, an interactive online guide to help you find a new book from a selection of more than three hundred titles curated by NPR’s editorial staff.

Fiction writers Mat Johnson and Samuel Sattin discuss their experiences writing both novels and comics, how to write post-apocalyptic work after the presidential election. (Paste)

Speaking of comics, DC Entertainment’s Rebirth program was launched earlier this year, and features a lineup of classic superheroes in brand new stories. Shelf Awareness lists the Rebirth titles arriving in January, including Superman Vol. 1: Son of Superman, written by Peter J. Tomasi, and Green Arrow Vol. 1: The Death and Life of Oliver Queen, written by frequent Poets & Writers contributor Benjamin Percy.

Creative nonfiction writer Janice Lee on her new essay collection; Kafka’s sexual phobias were actually pretty normal; Bob Dylan’s Nobel speech to be read on his behalf; and other news.

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Bob Dylan will not attend the upcoming ceremony in Sweden to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, but the Swedish Academy has announced that his speech will be read on his behalf. The academy also announced that musician and writer Patti Smith will perform Dylan’s song “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” at the ceremony as a tribute to Dylan. So far, the speech reader has not been named. (New York Times)

Joshua Topolsky, founder of the website the Verge, has launched the Outline, a new site featuring cultural criticism and longform journalism optimized for mobile reading. Topolsky says the site aims to be “a next-generation version of the New Yorker.”

Westworld and writer’s block; topical book F*CK YOU, 2016 comes out tomorrow; Transit Press founders on publishing works in translation; and other news.

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“In the year that David Bowie died, Brexit shocked us, ‘Hiddleswift’ was a thing and Trump trumped, we are all asking ourselves, was 2016 really the worst year ever?” That’s the synopsis for Michael Joesph’s new book, F*CK YOU, 2016, which comes out tomorrow. (Bookseller)

Meanwhile, poet Nin Andrews interviews poet Dante Di Stefano about his book, Love Is a Stone Endlessly in Flight, as well as the anthology Di Stefano is editing in response to Trump’s impending presidency. (Best American Poetry)

Merriam-Webster dictionary urges its users to stop looking up “fascism”; drink a cocktail made from old books; on working for a ghostwriter; and other news.

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The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin has acquired a collection of books from Gabriel García Márquez’s library. The collection includes signed books given to García Márquez from Nobel Prize winners Toni Morrison, Orhan Pamuk, and Pablo Neruda, as well as books gifted to him from world leaders. (Los Angeles Times)

Do you love books so much you want to…drink them? Why not, right? The Columbia Room bar in Washington, D.C., serves a cocktail made with actual pages of hundred-year-old books. “The old books are combined with Armagnac, vintage PX sherry, a porcini cordial, and eucalyptus to create a sweet dessert drink with a ‘savory edge.’ The cocktail is served in a flask that’s placed inside a hollowed-out book.” (Washingtonian)

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore is one of three novelists, profiled by Emily Raboteau in "If At First You Don't Succeed" (March/April 2014), who persevered despite the commercial "failure" of early books. From the profile:

Join fiction writer, dessert blogger, and baker Aaron Hamburger at Whole Foods Market in New York City as he prepares his delicious limoncello cupcakes and talks about what the art of food writing has taught him about fiction writing. Watch via YouTube.

Ever wonder how an audio book is created? Watch this exclusive video of Junot Díaz recording the opening lines of his short story collection, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, 2012), which is featured in the Page One section of our September/October 2012 issue.

Join contributor Robert Hershon for a pint at McSorley's Old Ale House, where poet and head bartender Geoffrey Bartholomew has sold more than five thousand copies of his self-published collection, The McSorley's Poems, without the aid of a high-powered marketing department or special advertising and promotions. Watch via YouTube.

Go behind the scenes at the photo shoot with the literary agents featured on the cover of our July/August issue to see how much time and energy goes into capturing the images published in Poets & Writers Magazine. Join the photographer, the art director, the managing editor, and the editor of the magazine in a SoHo loft as they work toward the perfect cover.

Watch Stephanie G'Schwind, Camille Rankine, Michael Collier, and Beth Harrison offer their advice for poets and writers interested in submitting their work to writing contests. G'Schwind, director of the Center for Literary Publishing; Collier, director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference; Rankine, communications coordinator at Cave Canem Foundation; and Harrison, associate director of the Academy of American Poets, talked with editor Kevin Larimer as part of a roundtable interview published in the May/June 2011 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

Watch contributor Thomas Israel Hopkins—along with this wife, novelist Emily Barton, and their son, Tobias—discuss the impetus for writing "The Future of Family-Friendly Residencies." In the article, which appears in the March/April 2011 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, Hopkins takes a look at the relatively small number of colonies that allow writers to bring children for their full stay and offers some suggestions for ways in which parent-writers and residency directors can work together to facilitate more programs that accommodate families.

As a companion to Indie Innovators, a special section on groundbreaking
presses and magazines, we demonstrate how to Coptic bind a chapbook.
View the accompanying slideshow for information on formatting your book in Microsoft Word.